CANCER

Haridwar: Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala today said films are her lifeline and it is difficult for her to think of a life without movies.
When asked whether she was preparing to retire from films and stepping towards a life of spirituality and renunciation, Koirala who is here to attend a religious...

New Delhi: BJP President Amit Shah on Monday condoled the demise of former Maharashtra home minister and NCP leader R R Patil.
"My condolences and prayers for the departed soul of Shri RR Patil ji (former Home Minister of Maharashtra)," Shah posted on microblogging site Twitter.
Patil died on Monday from...

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra home minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader RR Patil on Monday died in Mumbai.
Former minister was suffering from advance stage of Oral Cancer and was on ventilator support in Lilavati Hospital of Mumbai.
The leader held important ministries under Prithviraj Chavan-led Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra.
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New Delhi: At a time when various studies are going on whether radiation from mobile phones is harmful for health, an US expert Saturday said no study or research has proved that non-ionising radiation, as produced by these devices, causes cancer.
"No study or research about cancer has proved that non-ionizing...

New Delhi: Senior journalist Diptosh Majumdar on Sunday passed away at a private hospital in Delhi. He was 55. He is survived by his wife. Majumdar, who was National Affairs Editor at NewsX, was suffering from Acute Myelocytic Leukemia (AML), one type of blood cancer.
He was admitted to the Apollo...

New Delhi: Actress Manisha Koirala, a survivor of ovarian cancer, took part in CanSupport's Walk for Life 2015 here Sunday to create awareness about the disease.
The purpose of the walk is to alert everyone to the rising incidence of cancer, to show solidarity with those affected by the disease, and...

New Delhi: Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha on Thursday condoled the death of 14-year-old Chandan who succumbed to cancer a day ago.
Chandan, who had been undergoing cancer treatment at AIIMS in New Delhi, finally succumbed to the disease on Wednesday after a long battle. The...

Washington: Search giant Google is developing artificial human skin to test cancer-detecting nanoparticles that will work with a smart wristband.
Last year Google announced that it was working on magnetic nanoparticles that would seek out cancer cells in the bloodstream and report back to a wristband.
Now, the company is also using...

New York: Joe Cocker, the raspy-voiced British singer known for his frenzied cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends," the teary ballad "You Are So Beautiful" and a contorted performing style uncannily parodied by John Belushi on "Saturday Night Live," has died. He was 70.
His London-based agent, Barrie...

New Delhi: A former Customs Commissioner, who lost his speech due to throat cancer after prolonged tobacco use, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to reconsider the proposal to ban sale of loose cigarettes, amid reports that the move is likely to be put on hold.
"After having...

Washington: A vaccine against breast cancer developed at Washington University's School of Medicine is safe for patients afflicted with the disease, results of a clinical trial indicate.
Preliminary evidence also suggested that the vaccine primed the patients' immune system to attack tumour cells and helped slow the cancer's progression.
The new vaccine...

London: Scientists have managed to shrink one of the most aggressive brain cancers both in the lab and in mice by combining cannabinoids with radio therapy.
Experts have shown that when certain parts of cannabis are used to treat cancer tumours alongside radio therapy treatment the growths can virtually disappear.
The new...

Washington: A large study has found that cigarette smoking prior to the first diagnosis of lung (stage I), bladder, kidney or head and neck cancer increases the risk of developing a second smoking-associated cancer.
"As survival improves for a number of smoking-related cancers, patients are living longer; however, smoking may increase...

Bilaspur: Soon after reports of the death of eight women due to sterilisation surgeries came to light, the Chhattisgarh government has suspended four doctors for medical negligence in the case. An FIR has also been registered against the doctors.
Eight women had died after they underwent sterilisation surgeries at a camp...

Bhubaneswar: With cancer emerging as a public health problem in the state, Odisha government is planning to centrally procure chemotherapy medicines in order to provide free of cost treatment to the poor patients, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu S Nayak.
"We are also...

Noida: The National Green Tribunal has issued a notice to the Chief Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh government, the UP pollution control board, the District Magistrate and SSP of Noida to file a report on the rising cases of cancer in the Greater Noida district, allegedly due to consumption of...

London: Just 15 minutes of vigorous activity every day, such as running, in addition to walking and moderate activity, can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer by a fifth in postmenopausal women, a new study has found.
Researchers also found that women with the most body fat were 55...

Toronto: Practising mindfulness meditation can have a positive physical impact at the cellular level in breast cancer survivors, a new study has found.
Canadian researchers from Alberta Health Services' Tom Baker Cancer Centre and the University of Calgary Department of Oncology have demonstrated that telomeres - protein complexes at the...

Portland, Ore.: A young woman who moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state's assisted-suicide law took lethal drugs prescribed by a doctor and has died, a spokesman said Sunday.
Brittany Maynard, 29, was diagnosed with brain cancer on New Year's Day and was later given six months to live....

Noida: Around five villages near the Chhap-raula Industrial Area in Greater Noida are seeing abnormally high number of cancer cases surface in the last five years. According to a survey by the government 57 people have died in the last five years due to cancer and there are 36 people...

Brittany Maynard showed a lot of courage when she declared that she planned to take her life on November 1 using medication. The 29-year-old woman had only been married for a year when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Maynard shifted to Oregon state with her family where the Death With...

Greater Noida: An NGO has raised alarm about the abnormally high number of Cancer cases in five villages near the Chhapraula Industrial Area in Greater Noida.
The NGO claims that around 125 cases of Cancer have been reported from these villages in the last five years, whereas official figures tell a...

Mumbai: Founder and Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, Nita Ambani was on Thursday invited to join the board of visitors of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre.
MD Anderson Cancer Centre is widely acclaimed as a premier cancer centre, with a commitment to rapidly translate scientific knowledge into better...

Laguna Beach: Google is working on a cancer-detecting pill in its latest effort to push the boundaries of technology.
Still in the experimental stage, the pill is packed with tiny magnetic particles, which can travel through a patient's bloodstream, search for malignant cells and report their findings to a sensor on...

Hugh Jackman has been diagnosed and treated for skin cancer for the third time in a year. The actor's representative told E!News that Jackman was recently treated for basal cell carcinoma. The rep added that he is "all good" now.
The Australian actor was previously treated of the same disease in...

Brittany Maynard is a 29-year-old who has chosen the day she wants to die as November 1, 2014. The terminally ill patient discovered she was suffering from grade II Astrocytoma, a severe brain tumour, in January this year.
Brittany got married in 2013 and was planning to start a family when...